I live in both camps. Typing this on a Pixel phone, a phone that also has iMessage thanks to 3rd party tools.
While I love the feature set of RCS, it isn't exactly prime time just yet.
- People will drop out of group chats without actually intending to,
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- End to end encryption drops for unknown reasons.
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- Sometimes a single user can cause a chain reaction that just kills a chat, or unknowingly causes someone to be ghosted and miss a huge portion of a group conversation before mysteriously reappearing out of nowhere.
Can't count how many times I have dove into message settings on my device to see if my bone stock Pixel was causing an issue in RCS, or, reviewed screenshots of other people's devices to attempt and troubleshoot them .
RCS is great when it works, but gives me nightmares of 90s AOL messaging with a friend using an unreliable Internet connection.